The Biden administration has added nine respiratory cancers to the list of illnesses presumed to be caused by toxic exposure to burn pits as part of the president’s promise to better support US veterans returning from war sick and dying from their service.
President Joe Biden announced on Monday that veterans who are suffering from any of the nine conditions and who were deployed overseas to serve in the Gulf War, the Iraq War or the War in Afghanistan will now be given automatic access to the healthcare and disability claims that they need.
